Interesting (non-Blakely) sentencing items in the papers

Though I continue to be consumed by Blakely, Booker, Shepard stories (see all the links here with just some of last week’s fun), two recent newspaper pieces are great reminders of other important and interesting sentencing issues:

• This article from Washington Post discusses the efforts of Kenneth Starr to overturn the Virginia death sentence of convicted murderer Robin Lovitt.

• This article from the San Francisco Chronicle discusses shame punishments broadly in conjunction with reporting that Oakland has plans to plaster “on bus stop signs or even 10-foot by 22-foot billboards” the faces of persons “caught by surveillance cameras and convicted of solicitation.”